Linux-Development-Sys Digest #5, Volume #8 Sun, 9 Jul 00 07:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: is there a port to windows media player? (C.J.)
Re: Query : Mpeg-2 Decoder Card's ("Alex DeLarge")
Warning! -- SONY SUBSTANDARD SERVICE! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Driver for SMC-1211TX EZ Card? (Jeff McWilliams)
Login problem with Lineo ("Sumit Birla")
CHILD_MAX: can't limit the number of processes per real UID (Olivier ROBERT)
Re: Sys call for Available Memory? (MeekGeek)
Re: Device Driver that accesses Kernel memory ("Dmitriy A. Fedorov")
2.4.0test2 and pppd ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Embedded Linux Problem ? ("NTUST")
Embedded linux problem? ("NTUST")
Design of A low end Net aware device with 1E + 1S interfaces (Vivek Kumar)
Re: Interrupting and resuming the execution of processes. (Shaya)
Re: A good distribution anybody? (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Re: A good distribution anybody? (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
OFF TOPIC: Questions about Open Source Development. (Peder Schmidt & Rickard
Nordstr�m)
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C.J.)
Subject: Re: is there a port to windows media player?
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 19:17:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Mike Frisch) wrote:
>On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 18:14:19 GMT, C.J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Why? The sound quality of .asp sucks seriously.
>
>Perhaps, but there are plenty of .asp only sources on the net. My local
>radio station only supports Windows Media Player which leaves me high and
>dry in Linux.
Yeah, I have to conceed on that one. My favorite local radio station also
only uses .asp format. Wonder why so many ppl are using .asp when the sound
quality is so poor. Is MS giving the .asp server away with IIS now too?
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From: "Alex DeLarge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Query : Mpeg-2 Decoder Card's
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 20:00:32 +0100
The Creative labs Dxr2 is supported. The Hollywood+ might be but I'm not
sure.
Check out www.livid.org
--
Alex DeLarge - Guven Linux at 0.03rc2
Decode this for a prezzie : 24.24.24.24 90.255.255.126
Q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:CWR75.5914$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Just wondering what kind of work has gone into supporting mpeg decoding
> (video) in linux and perhaps a more appropriate source of information is
you
> have one
>
> Q
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Warning! -- SONY SUBSTANDARD SERVICE!
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 21:19:15 GMT
Anyone considering the purchase of a Sony peripheral for their computer
might want to give it some further thought. There clearly is not a
reciprocal relationship between what they sell and what they service.
-
I purchased a CD-RW drive back in April that just recently went bad
(won't read). When I called Sony service, I was told that I could not
get a replacement and that I had to ship it across the country to be
"repaired" (and we all know what that means...) - with a three (3) week
turnaround. Assuming that they keep their 3-week commitment, with
shipping both ways, I'd be without the use of the unit for at least
five weeks!!!
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I hardly think that's reasonable or fair.
-
Compare this to HP, who under the same circumstances would simply ship
you out a replacement unit and issue a call-tag for the old one.
-
Sony is a behemoth in the marketplace and as such, they have an
obligation to scale their service facilities to meet demand. To not do
so is an indication of their lack of commitment to customer satisfaction
and an unwillingness to stand behind their products.
-
Buyer be ware!
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/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff McWilliams)
Subject: Re: Driver for SMC-1211TX EZ Card?
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 22:30:02 GMT
In article <70295.1271$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Ronis wrote:
>I'm trying to install a SMC-1211TX EZ Card in an i586 running 2.2.16
>(it was using a SMC-Elite16 before). From the information at the SMC
>site, it looks like I have to use the rtl8139 driver; is this correct?
>
>Any hints as to how to configure the module or how well it works (I
>notice that it's marked 'experimental')?
David,
Yes, the rtl8139 driver seems to work fine. I'm running it here on
2.2.14 with the SMC PCI card.
You shouldn't have to provide any parameters during insmod or modprobe.
Jeff
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From: "Sumit Birla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Login problem with Lineo
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 22:51:20 GMT
Hello all,
Just got done making a custom boot disk but I am unable to login. The
following is what I see on the screen -
blackbox1 login: root
login[35]: invalid password for 'root' on 'tty1'
It doesn't even ask for a password. Does anyone know what causes this
behavior? I have the /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and all the /lib/libnss_*
files in place. Do I have to do an ldconfig or something? Also, how do I
instruct the kernel to boot up in single-user mode?
Thanks.
Sumit
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From: Olivier ROBERT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: CHILD_MAX: can't limit the number of processes per real UID
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 01:42:49 +0200
Dear usenet readers!
I need to limit the maximum number of processes per real user id on
my server, I thought it had to be done by modifying
/usr/include/linux/limits.h, and changing the following line:
#define CHILD_MAX 999 /* no limit :-) */
to this one:
#define CHILD_MAX 64 /* limited now! :p */
and then recompiling the kernel...
That's what I did, I installed it, LILOed it, and rebooted the
machine, but a getconf CHILD_MAX still returns a value of 999! I suppose
there's something to do I didn't do, but what?
I have a 2.2.16 kernel (with a Slackware distribution)...
Thanks in advance!
O.R.
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From: MeekGeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sys call for Available Memory?
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 04:15:33 GMT
Thanks Phil! I'll look into that one. I knew it had to be somewhere.
:-)
Thanks again.
M
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On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 09:15:32 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrotf:
>On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 03:44:36 GMT MeekGeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>| Is there any kind of a standard system function that returns how much
>| memory is available? I'd like to know what memory is available to my
>| process -- both the virtual memory available, and the physical memory
>| installed in the machine.
>|
>| I'm particularly interested in Solaris and Linux. I found
>| rlimit(RLIMIT_VMEM, ...) for Solaris, but it's not supported under
>| Linux.
>|
>| Is there a system call that returns the available (and total) system
>| memory under Linux?
>
>Use RLIMIT_AS.
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From: "Dmitriy A. Fedorov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Device Driver that accesses Kernel memory
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 05:58:45 +0000
Rob Morris wrote:
>
> I would like to create a device driver that allows me to look at kernel
> memory. Specifically, I want to somehow look at an array that is
man 4 kmem
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2.4.0test2 and pppd
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 00:05:10 -0700
I have installed the newest "stable" devel. kernel. I still cannot get
pppd working. ppp.txt which is supposed to be included does not seem to
be there (find has not found it). In /var/log/messages I get input/ouput
errors and during boot I get ip_always_defrag not found. Can anyone give
me the documentation needed? By reading the files included w/ ppp-2.4.0,
I think I need to use ppp-on (edited) in conjunction w/
ppp-dialing-scripts (or some such, edited as well). Can anyone give me
some pointers? Merci beaucoup.
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From: "NTUST" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Embedded Linux Problem ?
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 15:03:33 +0800
hello everbody
I have got a project about enbedded Linux recently.
It's a thin router which is based on Embedded Linux.
I confused to how to do that.
Because I don't have any experience to embed Linux.
So...I wanna get some help or suggestion.
Therefore , I list some objectives.
Objectives:
Based on the evaluation board of VIA-6509 with IDE interface,
build thin router software components.
As a result,I hope someone can resolve my problem.
thanks a lot ^.^
by daniel
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From: "NTUST" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.arch.embedded,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Embedded linux problem?
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 15:12:47 +0800
hello everbody
I have got a project about enbedded Linux recently.
It's a thin router which is based on Embedded Linux.
I confused to how to do that.
Because I don't have any experience to embed Linux.
So...I wanna get some help or suggestion.
Therefore , I list some objectives.
Objectives:
1.Based on the evaluation board of VIA-6509 with IDE interface,
build thin router software components.
2.porting from 80x86 platform to ARM-7 platform.
3.porting routing protocols(RIP,OSPF) to embedded Linux.
4.porting NAT(network address translator) to embedded.
5.protocol software debugging
As a result,I hope someone can resolve my problem.
thanks a lot ^.^
by daniel
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From: Vivek Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Design of A low end Net aware device with 1E + 1S interfaces
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 01:19:52 -0700
Hi,
I am planning to implement a low end Net aware device. The device will only have
1 serial and 1 ethernet interface. I plan to use CS8900A as my ethernet
controller. But I am still not sure about
what processor to use. The criteria for choosing the processor is the lowest
cost of the end product
I plan to Use an embedded Linux for the project
I am basically 4 processors
1. 8051 (not sure if it could handle the ethernet interface)
2. ARM based system-on-chips (from intel/cirrus)
3. x86 based systems.
4. low end MIPS (available from IDT, NEC)
5. 68K based microcontroller.
It would be great if anybody who has worked/evaluated the above microcontroller
and give your feedback on the bases of
a - Cost of the cost of microcontroller. (which vendor)
b - ease of design. Would definitely help if some design is already available
in the open source community.
c - which flavor of linux will be best suited
d - any other important criteria I am missed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shaya)
Subject: Re: Interrupting and resuming the execution of processes.
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 10:06:41 GMT
Hi
Take a look at the pthread library
start with "man pthread_create"
and look also at "pthread_cond_wait" to see how you can suspend a
process on a condition.
you might want to man on pthread_join to see how to make one thread
wait for another to finish.
I hope this helps
Shaya
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:13:56 +0200, "Paolo Romano"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've never used a clone() and i need some help.
>If i use it passing to it the name of a function then a new process is
>created, but how can i execute it?
>Actually I need to stop the execution of the parent process, start and
>finish the execution of the child, then continue the parent.
>Do you know how to do it?
>
If I get sick at a bus station would it be considered a terminal illness?
Shaya can be reached at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
or ICQ# 5709245
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: A good distribution anybody?
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 17:20:48 +0200
Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[sucks-rules-o-meter]
>But doesn't distinguish Linux distributions.
There's one that does; I don't have a URL handy. Last time I checked, Debian
won big at the "rules" end. As a Debian developer, I like to think that it's
due to more than just the "debian/rules" scripts in Debian source packages.
--
Ray Dassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: A good distribution anybody?
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 17:41:29 +0200
Mike Dowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In fact, it is my suspicion that distributions can really only make money
> from converts, and so do not cater for those of us who prefer the UNIX
> command line interface to the Windows GUI interface. Am I right?
Underlying your question there appears to be an assumption that
distributions are made to make money. While that holds for many
distributions, it definitely doesn't hold for all. Perhaps the best known
exception is Debian GNU/Linux, which is developed by volunteers.
> My first fear is that modified configuration files in /etc will get
> clobbered by OS updates.
The package management system I'm most familiar with (Debian's) stores
checksums of configuration files in /etc and uses them to have sensible
behaviour on updates. If you didn't change a config file, the one from the
updated package will be use. If you changed it, and the one shipped with the
package is changed as well, you will be offered the choice between
continuing to use your own version, or the one that's shipped with the
package.
I'm not very familiar with RPM, but I'd be highly surprised if it didn't
deal with configuration files in a similar fashion.
> I would have thought that the distribution software belongs in /usr, while
> local modifications belong in /usr/local.
Indeed. Pay attention on whether (and how strictly) a distribution adheres
to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (the successor to the FSSTND).
> (For networked pools, shared additional software belongs in /opt.)
Erm, in the FHS, /opt is for third-party software, network-shared or not.
> But I note that SuSe writes to both /usr/local and /opt. So my second
> fear is that some distributions will clobber my own software.
That may well be the case. In the case of Debian, the Debian policy manual
requires packages to comply with the FHS.
> Surely the one thing we can expect from a distribution is that it has up
> to date binaries all linking to the latest shared libraries.
I disagree. What I expect from a distribution is that it is well-tested and
well-integrated. I prefer libraries and programs to be as up to date as
possible within the limitation of being properly tested. Also, I expect a
distribution to have a reasonable degree of backward-compatibility in terms
of libraries, as many third party software producers (particularly big
commercial ones) do not use the most recent library versions.
In the case of Debian, the releases all go through one or more testing
cycles prior to being actually released. For example, the forthcoming Debian
release, 2.2 (aka "potato") is currently in its third test cycle. It
definitely doesn't have all the latest libraries and programs, but it will
have stability once it's released.
Of course if you always want the "latest and greatest" versions, you can run
the Debian "unstable" tree which is available for public download.
HTH,
--
Ray Dassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peder Schmidt & Rickard Nordstr�m)
Subject: OFF TOPIC: Questions about Open Source Development.
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 13:18:03 GMT
Hello!
We are two students writing our master thesis about open source
software. First we want to describe what open source development is
and how it works. Secondly, we want to compare the open source model
of developing software to traditional project groups working in
accordance to a life-cycle model. Your help would be greatly
appreciated! Our focus lies on business critical systems, so most of
the questions will reflect this.
Your name and e-mail will remain confidential!
Please send your answers to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you in advance!
July 2000
Peder Schmidt and Rickard Nordstr�m
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BACKGROUND QUESTIONS
====================
- Age?
- Gender?
- What is your profession?
- What kind of tasks do you perform at your job?
- What is your programming experience (if any)?
- How much time do you spend on open source development (if any)?
====================================================
====================================================
QUALITY FACTORS, RATED
========================================
The scale used is 1 to 5.
1 means strong favour to opensource development methodology.
2 means favoring open source.
3 means equally good.
4 means favoring traditional development.
5 means strong favour to traditional project groups working in
accordance to a life-cycle model.
We would be grateful if you commented upon your choice.
- Which development process provides the best environment for uniform
design? (For example code consistency and implementation techniques)
Rating (1-5):
- Which development process provides the best traceability?
(For example cross-referencing functions in the software to specific
pieces of code)
Rating (1-5):
- Which development process gives the best support for writing
software with the required precision in calculations and software
output? (For example efficient or correct algorithms)
Rating (1-5):
- Which development process support construction of "robust" software
best? (Continuity of operation under non-nominal conditions)
Rating (1-5):
- Which development process support implementation of functions in the
most understandable manner best? (For example self-explanatory
variable names and comments in the code. Usually avoidance of
practices which increase complexity)
Rating (1-5):
- Which development process best prevents the existence of trapdoors
and trojan horses in the software?
Rating (1-5):
- Which development process provides the best environment for
construction of software resistant to Denial of service attacks?
Rating (1-5):
====================================================
====================================================
QUALITY FACTORS, DESCRIPTIVE
==============================================
- How is open source software tested, except for peer-reviews? Are
there any formal methods?
- In case you have experience in professional development of software
how do you test the software
in that environment?
- If you have developed open source software, did you use any existing
source code from other projects?
- If your answer to the question above was yes, did you feel that the
code was usable "as is" and comprehensive or did you have to modify it
to suit your needs?
- If you have experience in professional development of software, did
you use any existing source code from other projects?
- If your answer to the question above was yes, did you feel that the
code was usable "as is" and comprehensive or did you have to modify it
to suit your needs?
====================================================
====================================================
THE OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
===================================
- Describe the different phases an open source project passes through.
What happens in each specific phase?
- What documents are usually generated (if any) during the open source
development process?
- When do you consider an open source project to be "mature"? (if your
answer is never - then please explain this)
Thank you for filling out this questionnaire!
Please send your answers to
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